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Mosconi Cup 2025, Dec. 3-6, Alexandra Palace, London

JolietJames
FeltyFran said:
We ALL would much prefer the cacophony to the sudden a-hole in our swing. We were pretty brutal on the Euros last year. Tyler has deserved the treatment and he knows it. He shot into the crowd willingly. Not sure why everyone here is having a fit about it.
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I have never seen a hill-hill 9ball being shot in the cup with the fans doing everything they can to shark the shooter and the ref do absolutely nothing.
Never.
I'm not saying Tyler missed for one reason or another.
I am saying the behavior of the fans and the ref was appalling.
That ref should no longer be working the cup.
Supporting unsportsmanlike behavior is BS.
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"The Great Wave" - Jill Hawk Alligator Case

JillHawkCueCases
SSDiver2112 said:
Fantastic
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Thank you!
King said:
Masterfully executed, what a beautiful example of your attention to detail!!
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Appreciate the kind words, Al! We really marvel at your attention detail, so man, that really feels good!

A ton of time was spent sourcing the alligator, but we ended up with a really fantastic hide. Along the way, I did touch base with a fellow who told me stories of spreading out gators skins in Jack's living room. He still has the templates used to gauge hides for Jack's projects.
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What do I have here?

VTEC John
thrillsoft said:
What is "Braz"??? I'm not as knowledgeable as the people here. I've heard of lots of cues but never "Braz"? What does that mean? I know it's not valuable, I just love the mystery and challenge of finding more information.
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Brazilian Rosewood has been protected internationally since (I believe) 1971 under the CITES agreement. It's illegal to harvest or import. It's far and away the most desirable tonewood for acoustic guitars, so Braz guitars are expensive. Not sure that is Brazilian as there are no reddish hints. It may be, but it also looks a lot like Bocote. Nice cue either way way,
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Custom and High End Cues on the Decline?

Benelli
trob said:
You know the biggest reason I changed from a fancy custom.. I don’t have to worry about it in bars lol if my p3 gets damaged and stolen it’s easy to replace . My monster Scruggs I had not so much. It was like taking a classic car out and worrying about where you were parking or who’s around you lol it just wasn’t fun anymore.

I recently had this conversation with a friend who just inherited his dads pre franklin monster south west. This cue has tons of ivory and scrim shaw . I’ve never seen anything like it from southwest. Ivory inscribed joint protectors .. the works. South west told him if he’s willing to ship it over seas they can get $25 to 30K for it. But if you sat that on a table at leagues and someone sat the new svb special edition cuetec next to it all the league players would be drooling over that and not even look at the southwest 🤣
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This is exactly why I like playing with my custom cues at league, no one gives a shit.

I played an entire APA season and my singles and regionals qualiers with a 72 Balabushka and NO ONE ever recognized what it was or even cared...

For the last month I've been playing with a 72/73 Szamboti and twice I had people ask if it was an Adam cue. Only one person recognized it and he was a cue maker.

Come on folks break those big guns out and fucking play them, there amazing cues and were built for just this. Let them do what they were made to do.

No one around you cares two shits about our cues!
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Custom and High End Cues on the Decline?

skip100
Of course they are on the decline.

The number 1 way to slow the decline is for owners of nice custom cues to play with them regularly and promote them to the next generation. Most younger pool players have never seen these things, let alone spent much time with them. People need education about why they are interesting and special and worth thousands of dollars. You don’t need to get that many players intrigued to prop up what is really quite a small market.
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Rhino MUST

hclopez13
muskyed said:
All my Rhino's roll really true, including the Must I just got.. I doubt the pin hole is off center, most likely the face cut is not perfectly true.
I have to say I liked their original tip better than the one on the new Must shaft as the new one seems harder.
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Yes Sir, thought about the joint face not being trued on the lathe, but I did confirm with a good joint protector that the hole is offset maybe .010". You can see one side of the joint protector edge hanging from one side of the shaft joint face, and wobble as I turn the shaft. Tried the same protector on the standard Rhino and it was perfectly centered.

Either way, I already contacted CS, they wanted pictures and videos showing the cue not rolling true, which is a bit hard to do by myself with a cellphone, but I got them. Now just wait what they have to say about it. Hard to show someone a .010" offset, so I used the joint protector to illustrate and a short video of the cue rolling.
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